Celtic Banter Archive February 15 2017

 

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15 Feb 2017 23:36:25
Ryan Christie's goal tonight was an absolute peach! It's a shame he left on loan because I think he'd have done really well filling in for Rogic while he's injured.

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16 Feb 2017 13:51:16
Never really noticed him at Caley if I'm honest but his brief outings in hoops made me question decion to farm him out. Makings of a great player. Hope he makes the most of this game time he's getting as he may even end up being the player we're looking for in the middle.

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15 Feb 2017 19:06:18
I see Lee Clark has left killie, if i was Rodgers i'd consider recalling ajer if possible because you can bet your bottom dollar they'll replace him with someone half as good.

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15 Feb 2017 21:20:16
That phrase "glib and shameless liar""i don't think i have ever used the word glib, in everyday life, started me thinking what it actually means, so i remembered i bought a realy old dictionary when i was in a charity dhop in stornaway last year, so now i know what it meant in 1932,

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15 Feb 2017 21:23:20
StephB: your right mate McCulloch has been put in place.

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15 Feb 2017 15:01:39
Amazing buzz about the club just now, may be overly optimistic but I would be pretty confident going into the CL qualifiers with the squad we have at the moment. Caveat for that being that the loss of Roberts looks likely and he may need replacing (would see keeping him as a major coup as would the signing of Onyekuru).

Big variable will be how LG returns as he has never really convinced in Europe. If a classy fwd can be signed and like others have said, competition/ cover for Rogic, I would be happy enough.

Lustig's current form is delightful and CG's performances have been a lot steadier, really hope De Boer's imminent arrival at the Poundland Arena doesn't take the shine off all of this.

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15 Feb 2017 15:12:53
Agree completely. We qualified this year with a lot of the players nowhere near the form they are in at the minute.

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15 Feb 2017 16:04:57
The biggest problem we will always face is important matches being in July which is difficult as you don't have any competitive matches for build up. The form of players this season is irrelevant but hopefully Brendan can start season better with players knowing his method come July.

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15 Feb 2017 20:02:52
I am not so sure, there are so many potential banana skins.

honestly - who thought Happy Bear Shavers would have been so tough.

I know we are a different force - but I remember being confident, as I was with legia, Maribor, etc.

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15 Feb 2017 20:11:03
I personally don't think LG is in any way the answer in CL qualifiers or games, we need to keep Dembele and sign someone else if we can. Also need another winger when Roberts leaves, Forrest too hit and miss for me. Only fly in the ointment is if someone dangles £40 mill plus for Moussa, I think most of us would take it. Try and qualify before he goes though and hopefully have someone else lined up but that's a lot of ifs and buts.

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15 Feb 2017 19:15:28
Get what you mean about competitive edge but wouldn't go as far as to say the current form is irrelevant.

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15 Feb 2017 21:13:32
Ihow about jamie walker?,

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15 Feb 2017 21:54:38
Agree with you Jim the July games are a nightmare to prepare for and we never look convincing performance wise. In our defence a lot of the teams don't and the ones that do there seasons are already up and running for a couple months.

That's why I'm not overly bothered about this unbeaten season carry on.
Coming into next season it could be a hinderance as we have to loss eventually and a domestic game would be easier to take than a qualifier.

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15 Feb 2017 22:48:36
Why do you not think LG is not the answer for CL games croybhoy? He scored against mamlo, he scored home and away in this years qualifiers and bot had the chance to prove himself in the group stages. Think your being a bit unfair on the lad.

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15 Feb 2017 20:36:48
Croybhoy that be the LG that scored in every round of the CL qualifiers? I would like to see a 3rd striker with a good pedigree come in to add competition upfront but I'm in no doubt wee griff would bang in the goals in any qualifier if he was in the team.

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16 Feb 2017 07:03:35
Lads nothing would please me more than the wee man proving me wrong, I just think Rodgers is seeing something he doesn't like, something we're not privy to, with his recent comments about lifestyle. LG is a cracking finisher when his confidence is up and he's number 1, but he's not the main man in that squad now, other players have stepped in and scored the goals. Obviously his injuries haven't helped him but I don't think BR, at this time, has a lot of confidence in him and Griffiths will feel that.

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15 Feb 2017 08:56:56
Ed do you reckon Dembele will be offski in the summer? I'd love if we could keep him for another season and if he has a good World Cup we could seriously cash in after that.
I think a RB, striker and GK, possibly another attacking midfielder are needed in the next transfer window. Hoping Chelsea come back in for CG.

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{Ed007's Note - I'm 99.9% confident that Dembele will still be a Celtic player next season. The main factor, as it was with Wanyama and van Dijk etc, is if the player wants to leave which I don't see happening yet with Dembele, it still comes down to game time which is one of the most important parts of Dembele and his advisers plans for him, the player doesn't want to sit on the bench at any club no matter how much wages they want to give him.}

15 Feb 2017 12:46:43
I believe if we could keep this team together for 3 years adding one or two more high quality footballers each year we could have a champions league winning side.

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15 Feb 2017 13:24:09
Cheers ed I hope you're right. My worry (if you can call it that) is if a club like Chelsea make a bid of say £20m will the board knock it back in fear that he may get injured or lose form?

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{Ed007's Note - A loss of form wouldn't effect Demebele's price and he will be well insured against injury, stop looking for things to worry about lol
We could have got more than £20m for him last month if we had given clubs any encouragement Dembele was available. I can't pit a figure on it - as the lady wouldn't divulge it to me - but I was told Celtic made it unofficially known what type of money it would take to tempt them to even consider a deal would have made a Sheikh need to tap his mate to buy 10 snout and that Chelsea felt the figure was unrealistic. It was Celtic's way of saying Dembele wasn't for sale at any price - and that message came straight from the manager.
Celtic rarely sell quality players unless they ask to move, the notion that Lawwell or even Desmond got offered £11 million for Wanyama and couldn't wait to sell him is just a myth, Wanyama wanted out, so did Forster, van Dijk (whom he forced to stay and extra year) and even guys like Hooper wanted to move on. We had no room for any manoeuvre with Ledley, we had offered him top whack to get him to sign for free so when the time came there wasn't anything extra without breaking the wage structure at the time.
Celtic will do deals to sell players that aren't wanted or needed by the manager but they have never set out to sell a player simply because it will bring a big fee in, the 'star'players that have left all wanted to leave so Lawwell negotiated the best deals he could and I know he was personally disappointed in Wanyama whom he thought he could get to stay for at least another year with new deal and pay rise.
I've gave Pedro some dog's abuse on here over the years but you'll be hard pushed to see me moan about anything he has done regarding the finances of the Club, it was when he started getting involved in the footballing decisions things with John Park that went wrong.
The only thing that annoys me with him is he has continually said for years we could pay £6-8 million for a player yet we never have - I think that will perhaps change in the summer though.}

15 Feb 2017 14:54:06
Jonace im all for being positive but come on mate, a champions league winning side! Never going to happen buddy. Not while we play In the Scottish league, no chance!

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15 Feb 2017 15:02:54
I hope you're right about the £6-8M thing Ed, I'm not dying to see that spent but would love to know there is a willingness should the right player become available. The only problem with us spending that sort of fee is that the expectation attached to a record signing would pretty much be that they have to be the best player every week which can weigh heavy on some.

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{Ed007's Note - I'm not too bothered with the actual fee but if you're shopping in the market you're spending more on wages which I've been saying for years that I think is far more important.}

15 Feb 2017 15:22:24
I have been saying for years we needed to raise the wage cap a bit.
Fees don't bother me really as we have spent money on duds then got cracking players quite cheap.

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{Ed007's Note - Every transfer's a gamble but eventually it's the wages you pay that attract players and if you're paying a bit more you are shopping at a higher level.
Do you think Samuel Eto'o went to Russia for the weather or the prestige of playing for Anzhi - or was it the £350k a week? The same's happening in China, can you imagine Wayne and Colleen Rooney stoating about China trying to talk to the locals? For £700k a week me and the Mrs would make an arse of ourselves like that no problemo!
Alexis Sanchez would sign for Celtic if we offered him £250k a week, it's not going to happen and I'm only using him as an example but I guarantee you it would happen if we could afford it.
And another thing while I'm on my high horse, it REALLY gets on my wick when you read stories about players wanting to leave their club to play CL football, what they mean is they want the money big CL teams like Madrid and Man Utd pay or as close as they can get, if it was only about playing in the CL why not sign for Celtic for £25k a week or a Basel or BATE who seem to be in it every year.}

15 Feb 2017 15:20:01
Never say never Lh 👍

Great points there Ed. The way PL and Rasputin had ran the club, from a footballing perspective, wasn't right. The way Celtic fans are talking right now is great, but it should have been this way for years.

BIG window this summer for us I hope.

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{Ed007's Note - We're finally shifting that small club mentality that seems to have hung around since MON's time and we're now starting to act like the big Club we always were.}

15 Feb 2017 16:57:10
If Dembelle does go for forty plus million, how about Celtic going back to their charitable roots and keeping ten million and donating the rest to the purchase of state of thd art MRI machines, and funding for the training of technicians to operate them, and on a different subject, if heading the ball was banned for health and safety reasons, football would be a different kind of game, but would it be worse?

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15 Feb 2017 19:40:29
No chance Jim Tim! Like I said bud I'm all for positivity but I'm also a realist. while we're stuck playing in the SPFL we won't progress to the level of being genuine CL contenders! It's just ain't going to happen!

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15 Feb 2017
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Celtic Player Sightings page entitled, Happy Administration Day, Gers .

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